@itzpaquet @Moon That's a worldview where all government is the source of all rights. Where rights are actually just permission slips from government that can be revoked at any time. That's fascism.

Americanism holds that rights come from God / Nature's God / Nature. That rights are Natural Rights, and that governments are established by men to secure those pre-existing rights. And that if the government violates those rights, it is the right of the people to overthrow that government and establish a better one.